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Heading there in a few weeks. Sit for an hour or 2 in the AM and late PM and still hunt the thick stuff in between. Doing it their way, a lever or pump with iron sights. Not many deer I know but only time I get to go to a "deer camp" and hoping to run into a bear or maybe the 200+ lb'er with a rack to match.
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I'd like to make it up there to spot and stalk some timber some day. Read the Benoit's book last year and it just makes me want to slog through the snow with a pump gun in some wool clothes. Best of luck to you. Hoping to hunt black bear up there next fall if this whole moratorium on baiting fails.
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The herd in northern Maine is looking pretty darned good this year.
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I have hunted and also camped in Maine. I don't like Maine for hunting. They let the residents start the deer hunting season earlier than the non-residents. Maine has a lot of bogs and swampy wet land along with slashings from sloppy logging. Not the fine forest and farm land that PA, NY or parts of VT have. Some guys in my rifle club invited me to go along on a hunting trip there. We were going to drive way back in on some dirt logging roads. I got to ride in a new Jeep Cherokee that had a V8. All our vehicles got stuck in the deep mud. We were cutting saplings and putting them under the tires that we tried to jack up out of the deep mud. Nobody got a shot at anything. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.sunjournal.com/files/imagecache/story_large/2010/06/07/BSECstuck01.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/JBVISALy5R8/0.jpg)
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Good lord
Is that the picture of the "new" Jeep Cherokee?
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I like to find pictures on the net to illustrate what I write.
The Cherokee was red and the year was about 1963 or so.
The guys were tool makers who shot at the club. However all we had was hatchets to cut saplings. No saws. No winches.
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Do you as a Maine resident get to start opening day earlier than non residents?
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Do you as a Maine resident get to start opening day earlier than non residents? Yes we do. We get 1 extra day to hunt.
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I like to find pictures on the net to illustrate what I write.
The Cherokee was red and the year was about 1963 or so.
The guys were tool makers who shot at the club. However all we had was hatchets to cut saplings. No saws. No winches.
What he really means is he is full of schit and too lazy to get his azz out of the lazy-boy in his living room
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
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Do you as a Maine resident get to start opening day earlier than non residents? Yes we do. We get 1 extra day to hunt. God for you guys. I wish they did that for us here...maybe keep some of the damn flatlanders from jersey out
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We just do it to piss Don off. Works well. Sorry Vermont.
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I'd love to get to maine to hunt. Contemplated a sea duck hunt in Penobscot, but I thought the prices were a taaaaad high at 1600 for 3 days
Am considering a bear hunt up there. But hell would love to go for a deer hunt as well
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I have hunted and also camped in Maine. I don't like Maine for hunting. They let the residents start the deer hunting season earlier than the non-residents. Maine has a lot of bogs and swampy wet land along with slashings from sloppy logging. Not the fine forest and farm land that PA, NY or parts of VT have. Some guys in my rifle club invited me to go along on a hunting trip there. We were going to drive way back in on some dirt logging roads. I got to ride in a new Jeep Cherokee that had a V8. All our vehicles got stuck in the deep mud. We were cutting saplings and putting them under the tires that we tried to jack up out of the deep mud. Nobody got a shot at anything. Those pictures are about as useful as tits on a boar.
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I'd love to get to maine to hunt. Contemplated a sea duck hunt in Penobscot, but I thought the prices were a taaaaad high at 1600 for 3 days
Am considering a bear hunt up there. But hell would love to go for a deer hunt as well I have been fortunate to have hunted in a few places but I really like the whitetail deer hunting in Maine. It is extremely hard and you will work for them but when you beat that buck at his own game you have won. I get frustrated and often wish for an "easier" hunt (no deer hunting is easy) but in the end I'm pretty happy following a track $1600 for 3 days does seem very high.
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The area I hunt has pretty good log roads and I can't afford to get a vehicle stuck or beat up, cause I need it to get back home to PA! It's pretty easy to get back in a few miles off the paved roads, but not always necessary. Any deer you get in Maine is earned even if it's dumb luck.
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Don,
You have no idea what hunting in Maine is really like so please stay the phugg in VT where you belong.
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Don has no idea about hunting period except for the shows he watches on TV
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell
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Hunted Maine and New Brunswick many years. Never had a problem with mud in November. You need to stay on the haul roads and spurs and off the winter roads. Haul roads have a gravel base, winter roads no base. Now mud season in the spring is another matter entirely. Also the hunting is for good deer few and far between in pockets not like Connecticut where you can legally take 11 and more in certain zones.
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After lucking out in Jackman last year, I'm going back to try my luck again during the Veteran's Day week.
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